Don’t know if you’ll see this but thank you thank you thank you for sharing that bit of info on the audio issue.

The audio issue was bugging me to no end, but after a bit of critical listening it looks like turning off the wifi card solved it. (Can’t believe I had left it on since I use a wired connection.) At any rate, thanks again.

Thanks for the tip about disabling wifi to fix the audio glitch. I was banging my head against that one for hours!

Thanks for the props on the blog! Glad it helped.

Yeah, I’ve got to whip up a post for the OC. I’m not really happy with how it works though, as the more you OC it, the more out of sync the audio gets with certain video types. I’ll post it anyway, but I’ve not found a solution yet.

New Forums are up: http://forum.pauljroberts.com

Let me inform you that I got my Revo 3610 a week ago and you have been the most helpful person as regards its set up. The only thing that I haven’t yet figured out is how am I supposed to overclock it since there is no bios out there that allows that.

I have tried via Asrock OC utility, however, I didn’t succeed. (My model was not supported).

Looking forward for your step by step OC’ing guide that you have promised.

Best regards,

Stavros

I knew I saw it somewhere…

New Forums are up: http://forum.pauljroberts.com

Interesting that the text size did that. Where is that in Win-7…I think I have an idea. That is not the DPI setting is it?

Aero-I’ve had users report both ways. Turning it off helps or turning it on helps. Another oddity.
Clicking & Popping- WIFI driver huh? I would have never thunk it.

Thanks for the feedback!

The 1/4 video screen issue I thought was solved in Boxee build 711. I’ll have to ask my smods there to make sure what’s up with that issue.

Don’t concern yourself with frame rate or Over Clocking at this point of the game. We need to find out why the CPU is so high in Boxee.

I need a baseline:
We know: you have flash beta 3p.
What we don’t know:
-But did you install BOTH the activeX AND the Add-in???? If you did not install the Add-in that may be why?
-Did you install the latest Nvidia video driver 196.21???
-Did you uninstall all the bloatware to free up ram? What amount does it show as Available?

Closing:
Overclocking I just did yesterday. And though it pepped up the Revo, I found a few video sources in Boxee would lose audio syc the more I OC’d the unit closer to 1.90 ghz. Which has me puzzled. So, I’m not sold on it….yet. Thank goodness it did not do this with Hulu on Boxee.
Flash 3p I’ve been testing extensively and I’ve found that it, like 2p, is a CPU hog. Expecially in Boxee. And it varies from time to time. I went back to 1p as it’s performance overall is better.
Lets get your baseline first on the Don’t Knows and go from there. Once we nail all that, then lets move to OC’ing.

I plan on doing a full step by step on OC’ing this week some time as the forum posts are very vague and confusing.

Standing by…..

New Forums are up: http://forum.pauljroberts.com

Heres a few other things I’ve figured out over the last few weeks that might be giving trouble to other Revo 3610 owners.

- Don’t turn the Aero theme off in Windows. Windows has an automatic v-sync to compensate for the Aero theme, so when it is turned off, you lose the v-sync and you’ll get bad tearing issues.

- If you are having audio quality problems (clicking, popping, etc…) disable your wireless card drivers (if you’re not using it of course). I used the DPC latency checker and found that the audio hiccups/crackling I was getting were caused by the card and/or drivers. Now, I have perfect audio and the latency checker confirms it is fixed.

No, Install Flash 10.1 1p Beta and it should work flawlessly for you. I have a Zip pack with all the older Flash Beta and Nvidia 195.21 drivers.
Your last (Sentence) says you are using the non -beta and I”m sorta confused.

The thing is that video is off loaded from the CPU to the Ion GPU, so the CPU is basically taken out of the picture…mostly. But…But….the 1600 has a few things stacked against it. It has the Ion LE video chip, which has a limitation of using only DirectX 10 when pared with ANY windows OS. Now this does not affect the flash playback but does HD videos. Then XP is just not as efficient at running most anything. Add in a single core processor and you have little room left for error.

I’m not so sure that the 64 vs 32 is the real solution. From what I’ve read on various forums and assisted others in testing different set ups-drivers-files-programs etc, and it appears to be a mix of single core & Ion LE & XP limitations. Flash seems to perform the worst due to higher CPU usage, which is 90% of all Internet video content! Files like avi or full 720p or 1080P HD MKV files seem to play very nice on the 1600.

I would not count on the cost of the 3610 to come down to that of the 1600 anytime soon, but you never know….

I picked up the revo 1600 (Atom 220) to use as a media box. tried pretty much the same tests. Using flash 10.0 mostly unwatcheable. Using flash 10.1, movies from Hulu had occassional judder in 360 and more judder in 480, some movies from wgbh slightly better but similar. ran screen in 720p, not 1080p, but not much difference.

So close, but no cigar. My 1600 will go back to bestbuy today and I’ll wait for the 3610 to drop in price a bit.

Question: how much of the perfomrnace increase of 3610 over the 1600 is down to the dual core chip, and how much down tu running W 7 64 bit, instead of XP 32 bit?

Yeah, I realized after my post that Flash does not support IE 64. Ahh, someday….baby steps…baby steps.

It should. I don’t see why not. Here’s why…..

1. The Revo supports 1080P out with 5.1 sound.
2. With the Flash 10.1 Beta update for the Acer, it handles all Flash via the GPU acceleration.
3. MLB.TV is flash based and it’s only 720P

With all three of those points it should work fine. I’ll log onto MLB.TV and see if they have a demo or something to make sure and post back. But it should work fine.

Update: You have to have an MLB account to view true HD Flash content. Still, MLB uses Flash, so it should work just fine.